Today's Mudline

February 18, 2018

presidential historian Jon Meacham on Trump: "Basically, Archie Bunker is President of the United States. That's what's happened."....Joe Biden on Trump: "A joke."....John Oliver on Trump: "It's just a firehose of bull****."....Omarosa Manigault-Newman: "We would be begging for the days of Trump back if Pence became president."....Piers Morgan on Omarosa: "Famous for being horrible...A reality television star whose only raison d'etre is to be a poisonous little viper spreading gossip, innuendo and terrorizing everyone in her wake."....John Podhoretz on Omarosa: "Ambulatory psychopath..."Rep. Jackie Speier on Schiff memo versus Nunes memo: "A post-graduate dissertation as compared to a fourth grade book report."....Olympic athlete Adam Rippon: "If I talked to people the way President Trump talks to people, my mom would kick my ass."....Anushay Hossain: "Trump is not about anything else than misogyny...I don't know how Kellyanne Conway looks at herself in the mirror."....Anand Giridharadas on Trump: "A rape culture presidency."....Dan Rather: "The incredible cocoon of privilege and ego with which the President envelopes himself blinds him to the sheer horror of his statements in defense of Mr. Porter."....E.J. Dionne: "The one time that Donald Trump speaks out passionately about due process involves charges of a man battering a woman."....WH chief of staff John Kelly on unregistered Dreamers: "Too lazy to get off their asses...Some of them should have probably gotten off the couch and signed up."....Laurence O'Donnell on Kelly: "The worst White House chief of staff in history...Spews hatred and never apologizes."....Jim Treacher on Bill Clinton: "A disgusting parasite who should be kept as far away as possible from the levers of power."....Rep. Adam Schiff on Trump: "It may be time for General Kelly to give the president a timeout. The country would benefit from that."....Andrew Sullivan: "Living in this period is to experience a daily, even hourly, psychological hazing from the bigot-in-chief."....Frank Bruni on Trump: "[His] litmus test for patriotism is this and this alone: 'Do you worship me?'"....Rick Wilson: "There is no better version of Trump, ever. He can only degrade and destroy everything he touches."....Quincy Jones on Trump: "I used to hang out with him. He's a crazy motherf***er. Limited mentally -- a megalomaniac, narcissistic...Someone who knows about real leadership wouldn't have as many people against him as he does."....Julia Louis Dreyfus on cancer: "Hey cancer, 'F*** you!'"....